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At HPR, we recognise that career moves are significant life decisions. Whether you're seeking opportunities locally or internationally, we're here to guide and support you.
How We Support You
Personalised Guidance: Understanding your aspirations and matching you with roles that align with your goals.
Diverse Opportunities: From early careers to executive positions across various industries and geographies.
Commitment to DEIB: Advocating for inclusive hiring practices and supporting diverse career paths, including flexible arrangements and career returners.
Why Choose HPR?
Holistic Approach: Considering your career trajectory, lifestyle, and ambitions to find the right fit.
Industry Insights: Providing market trends and advice to inform your decisions.
Long-Term Partnership: Building relationships that extend beyond placements, supporting your career growth globally.
CV Preparation
While there is no universally accepted format, the most important attribute of a successful CV is that it clearly explains to the reader what it is that you can do for them.
Elements you need to consider when putting together a CV are:
A well-presented, selling document
A source of interesting, relevant information
A script for talking about yourself
Download the guide to read the full details.
Competency Interviews
How to prepare for your competency based interview
This competency-based interview guide has been developed to provide you with a better understanding of the competencies or demonstrated behaviours that are required for when applying for a new role. Further, it is meant to provide information about competency-based interviews (sometimes referred to as behavioural interviews) and help you prepare for any upcoming interviews.
Download the guide to read the full details.
Psychometric Assessment
Psychometric Tests are used in the workplace to assist in the prediction of behaviours and performance. They are used in recruitment, selection, development, coaching, career counselling and team-building.
Many employers now use psychometric assessment early on in their selection process. Traditionally paper-based, assessment is now often administered as a series of online tests and inventories. Psychological assessment may also be a precursor to or part of an assessment centre.
Designed by psychologists, psychometric assessments are used to assess a candidate’s abilities, personality, motivations, values and interests under standardised conditions in line with a particular role. There are many different types of assessment, all with the aim of helping the employer build an overall profile of you and, importantly, how you would fit within their workplace.
Psychometric assessments typically fall into two categories, aptitude tests and personality inventories.
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Aptitude tests are used to measure your mental reasoning ability, most commonly your numerical, verbal, comprehension, and abstract or spatial reasoning skills. These tests are usually timed and so the pressure can be quite intense. Work quickly but accurately, but don’t be surprised if you don’t answer all questions.
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Sometimes incorrectly called 'personality tests', inventories are designed to reveal your interests and motivations. The typical format is preferential questions (where you select from a series of choices). There are no right or wrong responses, just individual answers which psychologists use to develop a profile of you, which is then compared to a profile of the person the employer is seeking.
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Prepare yourself for psychometric testing by finding out from the employer relevant information such as:
What sort of tests they conduct and what do they measure?
How long will the tests go for?
Can a calculator be used in numeric tests?
It is also worth gaining practice with many of the sample tests available (with particular emphasis on your weaker areas) so that your performance better reflects your natural ability. Doing crosswords, number games and puzzles found in newspapers and magazines will also sharpen your natural ability.
Assessment Centre
Assessment centres are not only a great way for our clients to determine your suitability for their business as well as the business area to which you have applied, but also allow you to get a better understanding of the kind of work you would be doing on a day-to-day basis.
Each assessment centre is tailored according to the business area or role to which you have applied, with specific selection tools used to assess and evaluate your skills and suitability for your chosen role.
Typically, assessment centres last between a half day and a full day and comprise of group exercises, role-plays, case studies and interviews. Each is used to measure a number of different competencies, which can include problem solving, communication, teamwork, professional style and confidence.
Depending on the business area you have applied for, there may be preparation work in advance of the assessment centre. We will give you all the instructions in advance of attending any event and will support you through our client’s individual process so you will know what to expect. Take confidence in the fact that if you have been invited to a selection day you have passed the first round successfully, and employers are looking for the same qualities you have already demonstrated at your first round. Most importantly, just be yourself.
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